Employee attitudes toward benefit packaging: The job sector Dilemma

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 23-41

  Fredericksen, Patricia J ^a   Soden, Dennis L ^b  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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EID: 79959537762     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: 1552759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X9801800304     Document Type: Article

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